Proverbs 18:5

“[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, etc.] For a judge to have respect to a wicked man in a cause before him, and to favour him, because he is a rich man, or a relation, or he has received some kindness from him; none of these things should have any influence upon him to overthrow the righteous in judgment: though he may be a poor man and a stranger, and to whom the judge is under no private and personal obligation; yet justice ought to be done without any respect to persons; to do otherwise is not only not good, but very bad, very sinful and criminal; it is contrary to law and justice; it is doing injury to men, and is repugnant to the will of God, and offensive to him,…”

“accept the person--(Compare Psa 82:2). "It is not good" is to be supplied before "to overthrow."”

“not: Pro 24:23, Pro 28:21; Lev 19:15; Deu 1:16, Deu 1:17, Deu 16:19; Job 13:7, Job 13:8, Job 34:19; Mat 22:16 to overthrow: Kg1 21:9-14; Isa 5:23, Isa 59:14; Mic 7:3 Proverbs 18:6”

“5 To favour the person of the godless is not good, And to oppress the righteous in judgment. As Pro 18:4 has one subject, so Pro 18:5 has one predicate. The form is the same as Pro 17:26. שׂאת פּני (cf. Pro 24:23), προσωποληψία, acceptio personae, is this, that one accepts the פני, i.e. the personal appearance of any one (πρόσωπον λαμβάνει), i.e., regards it as acceptable, respectable, agreeable, which is a thing in itself not wrong; but in a judge who ought to determine according to the facts of the case and the law, it becomes sinful partiality. הטּות, in a forensic sense, with the accus. of the person, may be regarded in a twofold way: either as a turning aside, מדּין, Isa 10:2, from…”